No Commentary on Judie Brown's Tough Love # 4 of 5

No Commentary on Judie Brown’s Tough Love # 4 of 5
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007

6.) “The Holy Father’s words rang around the world, as one Catholic writer opined, and even moved evangelicals like Dr. James Dobson and Frank Pastore to hail his courageous statement. So why isn’t every single bishop, priest, deacon and Eucharistic minister in the Catholic Church equally motivated and inspired by this pope.”

7.) “I fear the answer to this question is that there is too much political posturing and not enough commitment to saving souls in far too many places within the Catholic Church these days. There was once a pope who, being quite similar in many ways to our current pope, gave stern warnings to the bishops of his day. His name was Gregory. He lived in the late sixth century and he once told his priests in a homily.”

8.)”There is something about life of the shepherd, dearest brothers, which discourages me greatly. But lest what I claim should seem unjust to anyone, I accuse myself of the very same thing, although I fall into it unwillingly – compelled by the urgency of these barbarous times. I speak of our absorption in external affairs; we accept the duties of office, but by our own actions we show that we are attentive to other things. We abandon the ministry of preaching and, in my opinion, are called bishops to our detriment, for we retain the honorable office but fail to practice the virtues proper to it. Those that have been entrusted to us abandon God, and we are silent. They fall into sin, and we do not extend a hand of rebuke.”

9) “Such courageous words came – and indeed should come again – at a time when the Catholic Church’s bishops and priests truly need to do much more to consistently preach the truth, ignore the political or media consequences, and persist in saving the souls entrusted to them by God. After all every single priest, bishop, cardinal and the pope himself have the wherewithal to do so, but apparently in far too many cases not the desire. And it is this that I believe is causing most of the difficulties we are seeing today.”

10.) “A bishop is, at the very foundation of his calling, a physician of souls. He is the one to whom we should be able to look for moral certitude, passionate teaching and unequivocal guidance in those areas of our lives that often appear to be so muddled that we cannot see our way past the problem. Abortion has become such a condition for far too many in our midst. The majority of Catholics actually have no problem with abortion, and when they see pro-abortion public figures that are also Catholic getting away with scandalous behavior such as receiving Christ in Holy Communion, their ability to see the wrongness of the act of abortion becomes exacerbated.”

11.) “Who is to blame for this? Is the physician of souls no longer making house calls? Unfortunately I think that is the case.”

12.)”I mean no disrespect to Cardinal McCarrick, or to any of his peers who are frequently disinterested in enforcing Canon 915, but I have to say that they have created a most dreadful situation that has left far too many of us in a state of frustration, anxiety and sorrow. For example, when the news about Cardinal McCarrick’s most recent comments began to impact on others, one distressed friend of mine described the situation as ‘a poke in the eye to believers; a statement full of disdain and insouciance.’ And perhaps that is the most deplorable aspect of this current predicament.”

George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish. CINOPS BE GONE.